http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.69299&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rssThe phenomenal success of Foo Fighters demonstrates that Nirvana were a talented trio, and not just a rickety pair of training wheels for Kurt Cobain's wild ride into fame and annihilation. Obscured behind a smokescreen of publicity and deadened by the effects of endless radio play, Nirvana's music nonetheless holds its own as some of the very best of the 1990s. Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Cobain managed to direct molten flows of white noise into melodic channels navigable by mainstream listeners. Cobain's lyrics, meanwhile, were imbued with the Pentecostal passion of someone speaking in tongues. Traveling in rapid pendulum swings from mania to catatonia, his singing conveyed the pain of a soul mortgaged deep in addiction and depression. He was a man trying desperately to make sense, through song, of the world around him -- something not often heard in Top-40 music. It's unfortunate that the nihilistic elements of Cobain's life and art were so widely and readily embraced by a Pied Piper-following cadre of Kurtophiles bent on viewing self-destruction as ennobling. Nirvana never aspired to be the anti-heroic role models that certain hopeless souls among us needed them to be. To make music that mattered is all they ever wanted, and they took genuine risks to achieve that goal. In the process, they inadvertently altered the geography of modern culture by popularizing (for better or worse) so-called "alternative" music. - Chad DriscollGrungeen720Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:29:32 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.69299&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss The phenomenal success of Foo Fighters demonstrates that Nirvana were a talented trio, and not just a rickety pair of training wheels for Kurt Cobain's wild ride into fame and annihilation. Obscured behind a smokescreen of publicity and deadened by the effects of endless radio play, Nirvana's music nonetheless holds its own as some of the very best of the 1990s. Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Cobain managed to direct molten flows of white noise into melodic channels navigable by mainstream listeners. Cobain's lyrics, meanwhile, were imbued with the Pentecostal passion of someone speaking in tongues. Traveling in rapid pendulum swings from mania to catatonia, his singing conveyed the pain of a soul mortgaged deep in addiction and depression. He was a man trying desperately to make sense, through song, of the world around him -- something not often heard in Top-40 music. It's unfortunate that the nihilistic elements of Cobain's life and art were so widely and readily embraced by a Pied Piper-following cadre of Kurtophiles bent on viewing self-destruction as ennobling. Nirvana never aspired to be the anti-heroic role models that certain hopeless souls among us needed them to be. To make music that mattered is all they ever wanted, and they took genuine risks to achieve that goal. In the process, they inadvertently altered the geography of modern culture by popularizing (for better or worse) so-called "alternative" music. - Chad Driscoll http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1956646&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss Alt/Punk Tue, 1 Jan 1991 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Nirvana on Rhapsody Online 1956646 tra.1956646 Nirvana art.69299 1.29 Nevermind alb.238528 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/3/8/1/2/1082183_170x170.jpg 2007-07-26 00:00:00.0 1991-01-01 00:00:00.0 true Smells Like Teen Spirit tra.1956646 301000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1956646&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1956646&variant=data&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1956648&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss '90s Alternative Tue, 1 Jan 1991 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Nirvana on Rhapsody Online 1956648 tra.1956648 Nirvana art.69299 1.29 Nevermind alb.238528 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00:00:00.0 true Lake Of Fire tra.1970035 175000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970035&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970035&variant=data&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970024&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss Grunge Tue, 25 Oct 1994 00:00:00 -0700 Top Tracks by Nirvana on Rhapsody Online 1970024 tra.1970024 Nirvana art.69299 0.99 Unplugged In New York alb.117067 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/3/1/2/2/1082213_170x170.jpg 1994-11-01 00:00:00.0 1994-10-25 00:00:00.0 true About A Girl tra.1970024 217000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970024&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970024&variant=data&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970037&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss Grunge Tue, 25 Oct 1994 00:00:00 -0700 Top Tracks by Nirvana on Rhapsody Online 1970037 tra.1970037 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http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1956653&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1956653&variant=data&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970025&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss Grunge Tue, 25 Oct 1994 00:00:00 -0700 Top Tracks by Nirvana on Rhapsody Online 1970025 tra.1970025 Nirvana art.69299 1.29 Unplugged In New York alb.117067 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/3/1/2/2/1082213_170x170.jpg 1994-11-01 00:00:00.0 1994-10-25 00:00:00.0 true Come As You Are tra.1970025 253000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970025&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970025&variant=data&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1956649&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss Grunge Tue, 1 Jan 1991 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Nirvana on Rhapsody Online 1956649 tra.1956649 Nirvana art.69299 0.99 Nevermind alb.238528 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http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970026&variant=data&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3057096&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss Grunge Tue, 29 Oct 2002 00:00:00 -0800 Top Tracks by Nirvana on Rhapsody Online 3057096 tra.3057096 Nirvana art.69299 0.99 Nirvana alb.258385 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/2/1/1/2/1082112_170x170.jpg 2002-10-29 00:00:00.0 2002-10-29 00:00:00.0 true You Know You're Right tra.3057096 218000 http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3057096&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.3057096&variant=data&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=tra.1970036&variant=play&rws=%2Fnirvana%2Ftop-tracks.rss Grunge Tue, 25 Oct 1994 00:00:00 -0700 Top Tracks by Nirvana on Rhapsody Online 1970036 tra.1970036 Nirvana art.69299 0.99 Unplugged In New York alb.117067 http://image.listen.com/img/170x170/3/1/2/2/1082213_170x170.jpg 1994-11-01 00:00:00.0 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